1898.104: A Ship Dropping Anchor and Furling Sails; verso: sketch of a boat

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1898.104

People

Jakob Philipp Hackert, German (Prenzlau 1737 - 1807 Florence)

Title

A Ship Dropping Anchor and Furling Sails; verso: sketch of a boat

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

18th century

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/312395

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink, brown and gray wash on cream antique laid paper; verso: graphite

Dimensions

31.8 × 21.5 cm (12 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: [fragmentary]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lindner collection. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall

Accession Year

1898

Object Number

1898.104

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 408
• Ernst Scheyer, "German Paintings and Drawings from the Time of Goethe in American Collections", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1949), vol. XII, no. 3, pp. 231-250, no. 42
• Claudia Nordhoff and Hans Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807: Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Akademie Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1994), no. 1131

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